Porter Halyburton

Porter Halyburton (16 January 1941-) was a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy during the Vietnam War.

Biography
Porter Halyburton was born in Miami, Florida in 1941, and he later moved to Davidson, North Carolina. He became a Lieutenant Commander in the US Navy, and he fought in the Vietnam War as a naval aviator; he was shot down and captured on 17 October 1965, and he was awarded the Silver Star in absentia on 15 June 1966 by President Lyndon B. Johnson. He was released on 12 February 1973 after the United States made peace with North Vietnam, and he and his wife created a chandelier out of the POW/MIA bracelets which the wives of prisoners-of-war and missing-in-action soldiers had worn in solidarity.